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...We travelled here – myself, my partner Sophie and three of her children: George, 13; Olive, 12; and Albert, 10 – partly for a holiday, partly on a working trip....
...It was a high-octane, high-kicking show that raised even the lofty roof of the grand, Victorian Royal Albert Hall. Now he has returned to Oklahoma!...
...Our first day is spent climbing from Prince Albert – a colonial Karoo outpost with a handsome Cape Dutch church and a yearly jazz festival – up through the pleated hills of the Swartberg Pass....
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...The blue and white medina glowed in the same creamy light Albert Camus loved in Algiers....
...Likewise the vitamin C serum that draws upon biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi’s discovery....
...He does not use pesticides or herbicides on his own heavy-clay garden in Bookham, Surrey....
...Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform pictographs record the bread-and-ale routines of everyday life in Mesopotamia around 3100BC....
...Every time the machine swallows a disc, a raw-clay platter emerges on the opposite side....
...While other studio potters obsessed over building kilns or making their own clay, Rie, nicknamed “the urban potter”, carved her own path, tirelessly making novel work in an electric kiln....
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...“What worries me is the complacency,” Albert Bourla told the FT....
...Clay jars of architectural seed heads and wafting grasses and vases of flowers and greenery provide quiet altars to plant life against cool, lime-washed walls....
...But life is about to encounter a new threat, as the $10bn Lake Albert oil project run by TotalEnergies of France and China’s Cnooc roars into life....
...Albert Bourla of Pfizer, Ugur Sahin of BioNTech and Stéphane Bancel of Moderna also saw their paper wealth grow thanks to share price increases driven by investor enthusiasm. 3....
...The British ceramicist and writer is sitting in a glass-walled room in the ceramics galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, looking at rows of glass cabinets packed with decorative vessels...
...Clay-hewn coffee tables that resemble sculpture; chubby sofas in Pop Art-bright hues, cabinets glowing with traditional Japanese lacquer or the console made from dust sum up today’s pluralist, postmodern...
...In her Letter to Fellow Workers for 1902, she quoted the poet James Russell Lowell: “We who grow old should strive to keep an open heart, a quick eye and a ready ear for the facts, which should teach us...
...Arnold Bezuyen played Mime, bizarrely portrayed as a collector of toys, without exaggeration and Albert Dohmen sang an almost noble Hagen....
...An object I would never part with is some little clay models and pots that my children Mardi and Otis made for me when they were small....
...The first thing you may notice as you enter this sprawling warren of dining rooms and bars is the old clay tobacco pipes hanging from every inch of the ceiling....
...My father [Albert Yaying Xu] designed the acoustics in these spaces....
...At the far end of the ceramics gallery in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, a collection of serene green pots basks in a sunlit room....
...“In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt,” Bertrand Russell wrote in 1933. Plus ça change....
...“Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon”, Whitechapel Gallery, to January 9, whitechapelgallery.org. “Theaster Gates: Slight Intervention #5”, Victoria and Albert Museum, to January 9, vam.ac.uk....
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